New Report On Biden Targeting Parents Shows What Dems Will Do As Soon As They Gain Power
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A Democrat-controlled Congress would give the same party subpoena power, committee leadership roles, and resources to do what it’s done in the past: investigate and harass its opponents.
Sunday marked five years since then-Attorney General Merrick Garland issued a memorandum that instructed his Department of Justice (DOJ) to help investigate and prosecute parents who showed up at school board meetings to complain about far-left initiatives or Covid policies. Five years later we now know that the Biden White House was behind Garland’s effort to target parents, The Federalist’s Matt Kittle reported.
The anniversary and new finding also come on the heels of former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s testimony before Congress last week, in which his lawfare efforts to keep President Donald Trump out of office faced further scrutiny. With the midterms less than a month away, both instances serve to remind Americans of what Democrats will do with power given the chance: wage a lawfare campaign against their political opponents.
Parents Became Public Enemy No. 1
Back in September of 2021, the National School Boards Association (NSBA) sent a letter to the Biden administration asking it to take on the “immediate threat” that parents posed to their children’s schools. The “threat” stemmed from parents who were voicing their concerns and criticisms about critical race theory curriculum, mask mandates, and vaccine mandates. The NSBA wanted the Biden administration to treat the parents speaking out as “equivalent to a form of domestic terrorism.” Notably, the NSBA later apologized and acknowledged “there was no justification for some of the language included in the letter.”
Nonetheless, Garland had issued a memo entitled “Partnership Among Federal, State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial Law Enforcement to Address Threats Against School Administrators, Board Members, Teachers, and Staff.” The memo instructed the FBI to meet with federal, state, and local law enforcement to focus on the alleged threats and how to respond to them. As a result of this memo, the federal government opened 25 preliminary assessment files regarding alleged “school board threats.”
In other words, a Democrat-led “justice” department decided that questioning or opposing left-wing thought orthodoxy like CRT justified the investigation of ordinary Americans with the intent of prosecution.
Nonetheless, the NSBA claimed that an independent review found that there was no collusion with the Biden administration. But a new report from the DOJ reveals, as Kittle put it, “the Biden White House was squarely behind Garland’s effort to find a federal ‘hook’ to prosecute parents and school policy protesters with federal crimes.”